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LLVMpipe May Be A Bit Closer To Running GNOME Shell

05-23-2010, 09:50 AM

Phoronix: LLVMpipe May Be A Bit Closer To Running GNOME Shell

Last month we looked at the performance of the Gallium3D LLVMpipe driver that can provide software acceleration for the OpenGL-Mesa state tracker (among other state trackers via this driver architecture) on any modern CPU via LLVM (the Low-Level Virtual Machine) to optimize and handle these operations much more efficiently than the traditional Mesa software rasterizer...

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The first gaphics cards I personally owned where a Diamond Viper 550 and a Monster Voodoo card in the same system specifically for Quale 2. They were supposed to work together, but it was buggy as hell

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Just bought a Virge GX 4MB the other day for my "486 ressurection" project And I actually owned a virge GX2 back in the early pentium2 days. It managed to be slower than software rendering with very similar visuals. Things have certainly changed a lot in the last 12 years. It should be interesting to run this software rasterizer on a 48-core opteron system and see how it compares to a cheap GPU.